SNMP Update

I haven't posted anything about this topic for a while.  The good news is that it seems to be working very well to receive traps.  The bad news is that the main reason that we needed to do this threw us a little curve.  It turns out that the device that we are receiving traps from sends many (a lot) of "informational" traps like software version number, etc every 30 seconds.  So we end up with 100's of traps received, but it is just a bunch of noise.

We are working with the vendor to get the proper OID's of the traps so that we can use the SNMP trap filtering to accept only what we want.  Once we get that we will be in good shape.

One thing that would be incredibly useful in the SNMP trap mechanism in LT would be the ability to send the name of the trap definition along with the alert.  Each entry you make in the SNMP trap table has a name/description field.  Unfortunately, this information is not passed with the other alert information.  I think that Kevin submitted it as an enhancement request.

It is my understanding that LT has some significant SNMP enhancements on the roadmap.  In my opinion, the current SNMP stuff is pretty good and at least better than what I was able to do with K.

DW